Shirley Turner

“We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
― Stephen King

“Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.”
― Erol Ozan

“And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing. I am like sugar dissolved in a glass of water. Or, I am like salt, which disappears when you cook with it. I am salt. Without my children, I cease to exist.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us